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Containment

The Father of Containment, George Kennan (Diplomat) 

'The Long Telegram' - February 1946 

• Should focus military strategies on just one threat: the USSR 

'Iron Curtain' Speech, Fulton March 1947 

• Hope for Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' to combat Soviet Union

The Truman Doctrine, Feb 1947 

• Economic aid to bring freedom 
• $25 million to Greece requested 

Marshall Aid, General George Marshall 

• $400 million of economic aid to reconstruct Europe 

Truman Doctrine and Foreign Policy

The main US strategies were: 

• to make Japan into a satellite of the USA (model state) 
• to extend economic aid to anti-communist forces in China and Indochina 
• to establish and defend a ring of offshore Pacific Islands as a barrier to the advance of communism and its enroachment on South-East Asian Trade (Defensive Perimeter Strategy) 
• to prop up non-communist South Korea, though it was…